b3d2827f26a231ba9ddc1528a30b76bcfabd5b69 eng Garry Baker British Geological Survey Head of BGS Data Centre +44 (0)115 936 3100 +44 (0)115 936 3200 enquiries@bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey Environmental Science Centre Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG UK http://www.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex 2022-04-08T08:24:51 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 CRS:84 EPSG:4326 EPSG:4258 EPSG:27700 EPSG:3857 GBR BGS Modern instrument recorded earthquakes  2022-04-08T08:24:51 This layer shows the location of recent (post 1970) earthquakes within the UK.  The British Geological Survey (BGS) has been charged with the task of operating and further developing a uniform network of seismograph stations throughout the UK in order to acquire standardised data on a long-term basis. The project is supported by a group of organisations under the chairmanship of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) with major financial input from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The aims of the BGS Seismic Monitoring and Information Service are to develop and maintain a national database of seismic activity in the UK for use in seismic hazard assessment, and to provide near-immediate responses to the occurrence, or reported occurrence, of significant events to its customers and sponsors. A 24-hr on-call service is maintained for this purpose. Almost every week, seismic events are reported to be felt somewhere in the UK. A number of these prove to be sonic booms or are otherwise spurious, but a large proportion are natural or mining induced earthquakes often felt at intensities which cause concern and, occasionally, some damage. In an average year, some 200 earthquakes are detected and located by BGS with around 15% being felt by people. Within the 50-station, high sensitivity monitoring network, 20 strong motion instruments have been integrated. Data from all sensors is available for analysis and interpretation by BGS scientists in Edinburgh, in near real time, through internet links. The high sensitivity network has been expanded to cover the whole country since the 1970's and achieves a detection threshold for magnitude 2.0 earthquakes throughout the land area even in high noise conditions. All earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and above have been captured since 1979. For more information about earthquakes, visit www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk or contact enquiries@bgs.ac.uk. Accuracies of magnitude, location, and origin time variations are largely a function of the seismograph station coverage, which has been improving up to the present day. The layers in this service are set to automatically display only within an appropriate range of map scales. Please zoom to a larger scale to interrogate the map. Garry Baker British Geological Survey Head of BGS Data Centre +44 (0)115 936 3100 +44 (0)115 936 3200 enquiries@bgs.ac.uk British Geological Survey Environmental Science Centre Keyworth Nottingham NG12 5GG UK http://www.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex http://onegeology-geonetwork.brgm.fr/geonetwork3/srv/api/records/b3d2827f26a231ba9ddc1528a30b76bcfabd5b69/attachments/b3d2827f26a231ba9ddc1528a30b76bcfabd5b69_s.png thumbnail png http://onegeology-geonetwork.brgm.fr/geonetwork3/srv/api/records/b3d2827f26a231ba9ddc1528a30b76bcfabd5b69/attachments/b3d2827f26a231ba9ddc1528a30b76bcfabd5b69.png large_thumbnail png Hazards GeoIndex Modern instrument recorded earthquakes OneGeology continent@Europe subcontinent@Northern Europe geographicarea@United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dataprovider@British Geological Survey serviceprovider@British Geological Survey DS_TOPIC@geoscientificinformation DS_DATE@2022 thematic@Geophysics thematic@Geologic hazards thematic@Seismology thematic@Earthquake geoscientificInformation -19.789577 12.399298 44.617624 66.424746 https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Onshore/hazards/MapServer/WmsServer? OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map Modern.instrument.recorded.earthquakes GBR BGS Modern instrument recorded earthquakes  https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=GetRecordById&ID=9df8df53-2a82-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98&elementSetName=full&OutputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&version=2.0.2& application/xml Modern.instrument.recorded.earthquakes (MetadataURL) https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/GeoIndex_Onshore/hazards/MapServer/WmsServer?request=GetLegendGraphic%26version=1.3.0%26format=image/png%26layer=Modern.instrument.recorded.earthquakes image/png Modern instrument recorded earthquakes (LegendURL)